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The FOX True Crime Podcast

Flawed FBI Report Delays Justice In New Hampshire Cold Case

The FOX True Crime Podcast

Fox News

True Crime

4.7 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A New Hampshire cold case has been solved nearly 50 years later, revealing that a flawed FBI report allowed the prime suspect in a young mother’s murder to walk free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:03.0

Not much to it, is there?

0:06.0

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:10.0

Mmm, that is good.

0:13.0

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:15.0

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:18.0

Delicious.

0:20.0

I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute. A New Hampshire Cold Case Murder with walkers. Delicious.

0:23.5

I'm Gianna Jolosi with your Fox True Crime Minute.

0:27.2

A New Hampshire cold case murder solved half a century after the crime.

0:28.4

The person responsible?

0:32.5

The prime suspect all along who walked free because of a botched FBI report.

0:35.7

22-year-old Judith Lord was found dead inside her Concord apartment.

0:38.8

May 20th, 1975, months after moving in with her husband and baby, a building manager found her dead in a bed upstairs, her infant son, alive in his

0:44.1

crib in the next room. An autopsy showed Lord died of homicidal strangulation. She had also been sexually

0:49.3

assaulted. After clearing her husband, who had recently moved out after assaulting her,

0:53.6

investigators eyed Lord's neighbor, Ernest Theodore Gable, who was 24 at the time. But a flawed FBI hair analysis incorrectly excluded Gable as a suspect, even though his fingerprints were found at the scene and witnesses said Lord feared him. Gable was never charged and died in 1987. He was stabbed in Los Angeles. The Attorney General said if you were

1:11.0

still alive, he'd be facing a first degree murder charge. There's more on this story at

1:14.4

Fox News.com or subscribe to the Fox True Crime podcast. I'm Gianla Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute.

1:20.1

This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series, The Life

1:24.6

of Jesus. A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told.

1:30.7

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